Q1. A technician needs to add a processor to a server. Which of the following specifications should the technician examine? (Select THREE).

A. Bus multiplier

B. Processor speed

C. Socket type

D. Processor stepping

E. L3 cache size

F. Thermal specifications

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Q2. Which of the following factors would cause a technician to select a hard drive over an SSD as a primary storage medium?

A. Speed

B. Power consumption

C. Form factor

D. Cost

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Q3. A server technician needs to connect two servers with gigabit NICs without MDI-X in order to transfer files between them and is unable to locate a switch with gigabit ports. Which of the following types of cables would allow the technician to connect the servers to obtain the FASTEST transfer rate possible?

A. Rollover cables

B. CAT6 crossover cables

C. CAT6 straight-through cables

D. CAT5 straight-through cables

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Q4. A new server has two drives and a RAID controller. Which of the following is an option for configuring the storage on this server?

A. RAID 0

B. RAID 5

C. RAID 6

D. RAID 10

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Q5. Which of the following is a basic difference between DAS and NAS?

A. NAS requires fibre channel; DAS does not.

B. NAS is faster than DAS when using NFS.

C. DAS operates its own OS; NAS does not.

D. DAS is directly connected to a server; NAS is connected via IP networking.

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Q6. A company has hired a consultant to review the production storage infrastructure and provide suggestions on improving performance. The consultant has identified a bottleneck in the production switching fabric and successfully tested the solution in a lab environment. Which of the following should the consultant perform NEXT, according to best practices?

A. Implement the solution in production since it was tested in the lab.

B. Establish a plan of action to implement the solution in production.

C. Perform a root cause analysis of what caused the bottleneck.

D. Establish a theory describing the possible issue in the production network.

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Q7. A system administrator is given a server with an existing OS installed and four empty SAS bays. The system administrator is asked to set up a new data drive for testing with 100GB of data. For the best possible performance, which of the following should the system administrator select for the data storage?

A. SCSI

B. SATA

C. Solid state drive

D. Flash drive

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Q8. Several of the finance department computers are experiencing timeouts while in their financial program. The program will not open or close; however, the previous day the program was running without issues. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of this problem?

A. Service priority

B. Rogue processes

C. Firewall problem

D. Processor affinity

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Q9. A technician is upgrading the memory in a server. The server requires DDR3 Registered DIMMs. The server hasfourbanks ofthreeslots for memory and currently there is one 2GBmodule in each bank. When the technician attempts to add eight more 4GB modules of DDR3unbuffered ECC memory,the memory does notfit in the slots. Which of the following is thecause ofthis issue?

A. In a bank, 2GB and 4GB memory cannot be mixed.

B. The server cannot use ECC memory.

C. The server requires fully buffered memory.

D. The total memory on the server cannot exceed 24GB of RAM.

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Q10. In a PKI, which of the following represents the top level of a certificate authority?

A. Root CA

B. Intermediate CA

C. Subordinate CA

D. Delegated CA

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